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What’s the very worst civ for each victory type?

howdy. i know about the mods recommended in the FAQ of this sub, but to my knowledge theyre not all MP compatible. and i dont want any mods that give me an "unfair" advantage.

i like being able to play with my friends but hate the slow ui or having to look up something on the Civ Wiki and taking up time. or just never knowing certain mechanics without the wiki.

what is the most necessary, vanilla and mp friendly mods that exist? ones you would never wanna play without and that many if not most use as default?

EUI seems like the big one, tho i see it can sometimes cause issues with things. is it still the golden UI mod? is there anything else thats "essential"? would using it in multiplayer be deemed as "unfair"?

any input is appreciated, thanks!

For context immortal difficulty. No matter what i do every game I get warred on by civs halfway across the map for no reason. As soon as i get through the boring early game min maxxing everything to finally be able to snowball and overtake the AI they declare war on me after moving an army from halfway across the map. Neighbours are guaranteed to war you no matter what you do. There is no diplomacy at all. You can give them all the land they want. Do nothing to antagonize them they don't care. You trade luxes with them, declare feiendships all of that meaningless. They'll just end up declaring anyway. They can't kill you or take your cities, just to waste your time and ruin the experience. I still end up winning but it's 0 fun. Can't spam wonders, can't grow tall. Just forced to bee line victory conditions and spam science and the rationalism tree. Don't die and it's a win but with absolutely 0 fun because the AI makes it its goal to just do the most stupid shit. Alexander has 3 neighbours next to him he'd rather march through all their territory to go across half the map (literally) to attack me for absolutely no reason. Don't wanna play stupid minigames of paying them gold to war on each other. That's not Civ. There should be reason behind their actions. A shame really because i enjoy many aspects of 5 over 6 but this completely makes the game boring to play and win on immortal or deity. They will just permanently declare war because of the ridiculous production boost they get to units (great design by the way).

https://preview.redd.it/19doycu5b62h1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=426428221dc02d9c7c4c997d84df6307f22afd71

As you can see in the image I somehow conquered a city from the middle of Sweden even though I am not at war with them and I am only 45.3% influential over them. I have seen that it can happen if you have enough influence over another civ but isn't 45.3% way too low for a city from them to literally join my empire. If anyone could explain how this happened I would be grateful.

I have a 4k monitor and just can't get things right.

If I set to 3840x2160, the picture ends up taking up only like 1/2 the screen. It's like a little box in the middle.

If go 2560x1600 (which I'd rather not) then it's like 95% of the screen, I've got a grey border.

EDIT actually if i start the game it fills out more of the screen but... it feels slightly off, stretched out horizontally.

Also, I think it got kind of gibbled by the Windows 11 update last week.

What am I doin' wrong here

I am in a situation where I only need to capture one more capital to achieve a Domination victory. Brazil is one Civ away from achieving a cultural victory.

However, when I capture the final capital it will remove the Civ from the game as I have conquered/razed all of their cities meaning that Brazil will become Culturally Influential over all the remaining Civs in the game at the same time I achieve Domination. Who gets the win in this scenario as we simultaneously complete a win condition?

El Dorado was never proven to be real

Fountain of Youth was never found as well

King Solomon's mine is from a fictional story

Ok maybe not half, but 3 of the 10 or 12 idk how many there are. But point being, they aren't all real!

Title says it all really.

I can see some limitations, in that they really want wonders but have no benefit to getting them, besides playing tall, which has anti-synergy with chateaus which want lots of tiles.

This would suggest you should start by playing tall, then use the Musketeer power spike to grab some more cities and get a ton of museums and chateaus for the wide culture win.

Does this just not work in practice?

Greetings everyone! This might have been discussed already, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Is there an AI mod for Civilization V or Civilization VI that lets you actually talk to the civilization leaders? I'm thinking of something like the AI Influence mod for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, which allows you not just to chat with NPCs, but also to influence gameplay — building relationships with lords, recruiting troops, romancing ladies, and so on.

I believe a mod like that would be perfect for Civilization. It would remove the limitation of pre-scripted dialogue options and help avoid misunderstandings with the AI-controlled heads of state.

P.S. Sorry for any mistakes in the text — I used a translator.

Well I just needed somewhere to vent… I hadn’t played a Civ game in years but I recently started playing again last week. I was playing as Rome and was doing pretty good up until turn 290 or so. I had disbanded a lot of my units and was mostly focused on science/production but man I was not prepared to get ran through by literally every other civ. I hadn’t realized that the ai takes into account your military strength and that if you’re weak enough it decides to strike. Well one by one everyone started declaring war on me and I do not see a way to victory at this point. The worst part is I’ve sunk 15 hours into this game just to be destroyed by the ai. CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

Japan, Main island - I really only settled two cities here and played tall for a large part of the early game without war.

Korea / Manchukuo / Sino - Japan War - A lot of wars went on here. I spent about 70+ turns building up a huge navy and army, because Korea and China had gapped me in science by quite a bit. Very nerve-racking war.

Southern China Expansion - I settled 'Japanese Shang' and 'Japanese Fuijan', but took Chengdu from China in war.

Southern Asia Campaigns - I was surprised to see that Siam hadn't settled 400 cities by the time I had the military power to fight a war on numerous fronts with them, China, Polynesia, Korea and for some reason Denmark. Quick and easy war though.

Indonesia / Malaysia / Guinea Campaigns - When I began to start offensive actions for the first time in the game, I wiped out Indonesia first because they would serve as a great naval base. They also denounced me first so I held a grudge.

cont. - If you can't tell, Indonesia and I weren't the only ones settling in the Indonesian islands. I had to fight Songhai and Spain for some lands, and I felt annexing them and keeping them was appropriate because I wanted to keep all the land. (You can observe me preparing to declare war on Spain. I plan to declare war on every civ that has land in the Pacific hoping for an interesting yet rewarding campaign)

Australlia - Not much to be said here. If you read my previous footnote, the soldiers and ships surrounding every enemy city is self explanatory.

Pacific Islands - Owned by none other than Hiawatha, because of course he would, I plan to invade these islands to keep all foreign nations out of the Japanese Pacific. (I used IGE to claim some surrounding islands to make it feel more alike to the Japanese Empire, without necessarily settling on every last island there. Sorry.)

Wanted to give a show for one of the biggest events the Japanese Empire was responsible for in the mid 1900's; Pearl Harbor.

Demographics - China has been consistently Rank #1 in all of those categories until I took over Beijing. Very satisfying to see how you can dent another Civ's progress.

A low-res screenshot of my map.

The Japanese Empire is a staple of Asian History. I really only play this game on a modded map like this with every civ, on a true start huge Earth map, and it only feels right to recreate grand empires throughout history.

Additional:

I used IGE to claim Pacific Islands as my land, and to make borders look a lot cleaner without making the game unfair; Sue me, I think this made the game a lot more interesting.

128x80_TSL_G.K._resourses_epique_by.JSeb73: True Start huge Earth mod

Toft Flags: Custom flags as seen in screenshots.

I edited the game code to change the colors of China and a few other countries to my liking. There are tutorials on youtube if you want to learn how to do this.

I hope this wasn't offensive to anybody, and I hope the names of my cities are accurate to real life locations. Super sorry if otherwise.

Let me know what you all think!

Hello fellow emperors and kings. I've played the Gaia mods for a while, with the expanded tech tree and revised doctrines and like it alot, buth there's something frustrating is they make the game bug and crash, and corrupy save files and all that crap, until the save file doesn't load anymore.

So, what would you recommend as interesting mods that are stable and solid and won't give headaches?

...and the travesty of Civ VII.

The game launches fine, allows me to go through the new game setup, but when the intro finishes and you click the button to begin, my entire map is absolutely black. The hud is there, perfectly visible, and the two starting units icons are visible, but that's it.

DX version issue maybe?